groove vs vallecula what difference

what is difference between groove and vallecula

English

Etymology

From Middle English grov, grove, groof, grofe (“cave; pit; mining shaft”), from Old English grōf (“trench, furrow, something dug”), from Proto-Germanic *grōbō (“groove, furrow”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰrebʰ- (“to dig, scrape, bury”). Cognate with Dutch groef, groeve (“groove; pit, grave”), German Grube (“ditch, pit”), Norwegian grov (“brook, riverbed”), Serbo-Croatian grèbati (“scratch, dig”). Directly descended from Old English grafan (“to dig”). More at grave.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ɡɹuːv/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ɡɹuv/
• Rhymes: -uːv

Noun

groove (plural grooves)

1. A long, narrow channel or depression; e.g., such a slot cut into a hard material to provide a location for an engineering component, a tyre groove, or a geological channel or depression.

   Antonym: ridge

2. A fixed routine.
   • 1873, John Morley, Rousseau

     The gregarious trifling of life in the social groove.
3. The middle of the strike zone in baseball where a pitch is most easily hit.
4. (music) A pronounced, enjoyable rhythm.
5. (mining) A shaft or excavation.
6. (motor racing) A racing line, a path across the racing circuit’s surface that a racecar will usually track on. (Note: There may be multiple grooves on any particular circuit or segment of circuit)

Derived terms

• get one’s groove on
• groove fricative
• grooveless
• groovelike
• groovework
• groovy
• tongue and groove

Translations

Verb

groove (third-person singular simple present grooves, present participle grooving, simple past and past participle grooved)

1. (transitive) To cut a groove or channel in; to form into channels or grooves; to furrow.
2. (intransitive) To perform, dance to, or enjoy rhythmic music.

   I was just starting to groove to the band when we had to leave.

Derived terms

• grooved
• groover
• ungrooved

Translations

Anagrams

• go over, overgo

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡʁuv/

Noun

groove m (plural grooves)

1. groove (fixed routine)

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from English.

Noun

groove m (plural grooves)

1. groove (music style)

English

Etymology

1859 borrowing from Late Latin vallecula (“a little valley, glen, dell”), diminutive of vallēs (“a valley, vale”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /vaˈlɛk.jʊl.ə/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /væˈlɛk.jəl.ə/, /vəˈlɛk.jəl.ə/
• Rhymes: -ɛkjʊlə

Noun

vallecula (plural valleculae or valleculas)

1. (anatomy, botany) A depression, channel or groove.

Derived terms

• vallecular
• valleculate

References

• “vallecula”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
• “vallecula”, in Merriam–Webster Online Dictionary.
• “vallecula”, in Dorland’s Illustrated Medical Dictionary, Saunders, 2004

Anagrams

• call value

Latin

Etymology

From vallēs (“a valley, vale”) +‎ -cula (diminutive nominal suffix).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /u̯alˈle.ku.la/, [u̯älˈlʲɛkʊɫ̪ä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /valˈle.ku.la/, [vɑlˈlɛːkulɑ]

Noun

vallecula f (genitive valleculae); first declension

1. Diminutive of vallēs: Late Latin form of vallicula.

Descendants

• → English: vallecula

References

• vallicula in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press

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